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Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade"

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Yesterday I started to do my usual evening Buster apt full-upgrade but 
couldn't get it to work. I was getting messages about ldconfig not being 
in the path.

I did another apt update this evening but ran into the same problem with 
apt full-upgrade.

I rebooted to recovery mode and ran the upgrade there. It went OK. 
However when I restarted, after logging in with sddm, Plasma 5 locked up 
hard before bringing up the desktop. The computer wouldn't respond to 
SysRq or Ctl-Alt-Del. It took a reset to reboot it.

The second time I managed to get into Plasma 5 but quickly was locked 
into on virtual desktop. The applications on that desktop responded but 
the task bar & pager were dead. Stopping and restarting Plasma left me 
even worse off, as the running applications were overlapped on the 
taskbar, which was still non-responsive.

I was able to log out using Ctl-Alt-Del and restarted in Gnome Fallback 
(Metacity), which seemed to be running OK except that my monitor was 
running in 1600x1200, which it doesn't actually support. It's usually in 
1920x1080 and I couldn't figure out how to fix it, so I figured I'd just 
install Gnome.

After I started Konsole I ran into the same full-upgrade issue as 
before. So I rebooted into recovery mode again to complete the install. 
Along the way, I tried Plasma again but it just does the hard lock now. 
Gnome runs OK, once I adjusted the screen resolution (at least the 
current Gnome makes that easy).

However it's still Gnome and I don't really think I want to spend the 
time to figure out how to be productive in it. To me it just looks like 
all flash and no substance. I want to get back to Plasma desperately.

Is it just my computer or are others having problems with Plasma too?

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Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade" Gary Dale <garyndp@gmail.com> - 2018-08-06 07:00 +0200
  Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade" Ferdinand Thommes <linuxlab@posteo.de> - 2018-08-06 11:40 +0200
    Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade" Gary Dale <garyndp@gmail.com> - 2018-08-06 16:10 +0200
      Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade" Gary Dale <garyndp@gmail.com> - 2018-08-06 18:00 +0200
        Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade" Gary Dale <garyndp@gmail.com> - 2018-08-10 22:00 +0200
          Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade" Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2018-08-10 22:50 +0200

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